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<\/a>St Peter’s Church, Inverkeithing<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Church facade from one side of church\u00a0yard<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Inside church looking towards entrance<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>14th Century baptismal font<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Commemorative stained glass window representing Inverkeithing’s past and present<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>One of the more traditional windows yet quite different from the much older ones in York Minster<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Churchyard looking towards street<\/p><\/div>\n
I walked around the graveyard on a different day.\u00a0 It is on a bit of a slope and most tombstones were well buried in the soil and many stones are so weathered or damaged as to be unreadable.\u00a0 Despite the antiquity of the churchyard I saw few tombstones older than 1700 and none I can claim as family despite a few familiar surnames.\u00a0 \u00a0Given the length of time family lived in the town there would have to be some family burials there.\u00a0 It was closed around 1864 and thereafter burials were done at the Hope St Cemetery.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Street is behind and the back of the Tollbooth is on the right<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Broken tombstones<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Churchyard, other side<\/p><\/div>\n
Hope St Cemetery is quite large and on a significant slope so that many of the remaining tombstones have a real forwards lean and some have fallen on their faces making them unreadable.\u00a0 Back sections of the cemetery are under a thicket of vegetation to the extent that in some places it is hard to know if there are graves beneath whereas in others they were clearly seen hiding among the foliage. I was also told that vandals had attacked the graveyard some years previously doing considerable damage.\u00a0 Despite walking the entire cemetery and reading every visible tombstone the only family graves I found were those of a 2 times great uncle with his wife and another for their son.\u00a0 \u00a0I knew they were there as someone had photographed \u00a0and put them onto an online photographic grave site.\u00a0 The grandparents of the youngest burial, and my direct ancestors, were buried there and I have no doubt would have had some kind of tombstone\/monument but it was not evident.<\/p>\n